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December 4, 2018 Sergey and Anastasia Polyakov were transferred under house arrest. They spent in solitary confinement exactly five months. By subjecting the spouses to such ill-treatment, the law enforcement authorities urged them, in fact, to incriminate themselves and other people.

When we hear the word extremist, we have an association of a person who threatens the lives of others. We want to tell about a person who does not threaten, but saves the lives of others, but he was recorded as an extremist.

in June 2018, FSB officers in masks broke into the apartment, where the “Witnesses” with their children and elderly relatives were drinking tea peacefully. Against Gennady Shpakovsky as a former leader of a religious organization, they opened a criminal case and blocked all accounts where they received a pension and a salary.

The insults of the police and even the controversial religious literature are not a manifestation of extremism.

“The teaching presented in this fragment of the pamphlet is not specific to the Jehovah’s Witnesses in general, it is inherent not only to them, but also to other areas of Christianity, and goes back directly to the text of the Bible, “experts concluded.

A year ago, on July 17, 2017, a ban on the activity of almost 400 religious organizations of Jehovah’s Witnesses, which were recognized as extremist, came into effect in Russia. Right after that many believers faced repression.

Law enforcement authorities across Russia have carried out a sweeping campaign against Jehovah’s Witnesses in recent months, Human Rights Watch said today. The authorities have carried out dozens of home searches, raids, interrogations, and other acts of harassment and persecution.

Washington is alarmed by arrests of representatives of the organization “Jehovah’s Witnesses” (recognized by the Supreme Court of Russia as an extremist organization) by the Russian authorities and calls upon Moscow to release them. This was stated by the official representative of the US State Department Heather Nojert.

In Russia, the FIFA 2018 World Cup starts. Fans from all over the world come to Russia to enjoy the game of their favorite teams. But while they fill the stands of the stadiums, hundreds of political prisoners remain in Russian prisons.

Now, more than seven decades later, midnight knocks on the door are being heard again in arrests of Jehovah’s Witnesses. Last year, the Russian Supreme Court declared the group “extremist ” and banned it from operating on Russian territory.

On Monday, the U.S. State Department issued a statement calling on Russia to release more than 150 prisoners being held for religious or political reasons. Washington’s demand came as Moscow has been rounding up Jehovah’s Witnesses in the country. Among other prisoners, the U.S. specifically called for the release of Dennis Christensen, a Danish citizen who has been detained for his affiliation with the religious group.

At least 26 members of the Jehovah’s Witnesses religious group are being charged under Russia’s draconian anti-extremism law, and seven are being held in pre-trial detention, according to members of the group.

The Russian Government has stepped up its war against Jehovah’s Witnesses, imprisoning several Witnesses on account of their religious worship and confiscating the organization’s former Russia branch facilities in Solnechnoye.

The European Union is deeply concerned by the recent reports of increased government harassment of Jehovah’s Witnesses in Russia, which includes police raids of private homes, arbitrary detentions and intimidations.

The ban on the activities of the administrative center and local organizations of Jehovah’s Witnesses as extremist, has become the largest repressive action against believers since the times of the USSR. This decision has put tens of thousands of Russian citizens at risk of criminal prosecution if they continue to practice their religion.

The largest in Russia alternative Christian organization of Jehovah’s Witnesses (SI) is actually dispersed. A year ago, the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation banned the Administrative Center of Jehovah’s Witnesses, accusing him of extremism.

The wives of Jehovah’s Witnesses rounded up and imprisoned in Russia have written an open letter to a top adviser of President Vladimir Putin, asking him to stop the campaign of terror against the religious group.

In Russia, where the Orthodox Christian Church has deep ties to the highest levels of the Kremlin, the government has labeled Jehovah’s witnesses an “extremist” sect. The ruling was made exactly one year ago, in April 2017, and came into force just a few months later when Russia’s Supreme Court dismissed an appeal.

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